On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:00:32 -0400
> Kendrick Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm building on Solaris 10 1/13 with Solaris Studio 12.3, and using the
> > following configure options:
>
> 1.4.15 included only security fixes, not platform support. The 1.4 tree
> hasn't improved platform support in quite some time, so the client
> kernel module won't build on newer Solaris. I can give you a patch for
> this specific failure if you really want, but if you want to build on
> newer Solaris, you should be building newer openafs (that is, 1.6).
>

Ah, I see. I'll be taking a look at building 1.6 next for our Solaris
clients, but my current priority is to upgrade our DB servers which
unfortunately, are still running 1.4.


>
> If you don't care about the client, you can build with something like
> 'make dest_nolibafs', and it would be more likely to work.
>

Thanks, I'll take a look at this too.


>
> [...]
> > and the build fails in src/afs/SOLARIS/osi_vnodeops.c[1]. I've also
> > tried building on an older release of Solaris 10 with a much older
> > version of Sun Studio and get similar results.
>
> Which older Solaris 10? Is it newer than the release of 1.4.14.1 (May
> 2011)?
>

Yep, it's Solaris 10 8/11. I do have some x86 boxen with older installs
(pre-"U10"); I've give one of those a shot. Thanks for the suggestions.

k-



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: Kendrick Hernandez
: UNIX Systems Administrator
: UNIX Systems and Infrastructure
: Division of Information Technology
: University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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